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Author : Cynthia Valentine Heywood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Predictors of Favorable Outcomes Among Children in Foster Care written by Cynthia Valentine Heywood and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. A. Parker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000437779
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Decision in Child Care written by R. A. Parker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsible decisions are continually being made in social work. In particular the decision to place a child in a foster home can have far-reaching consequences for their welfare and it is vital that we make the best possible choice on their behalf. Although in the 1960s thousands of children were boarded out every year no systematic attempt had yet been made to summarize this experience as a guide for practice. Thus important decisions lacked the help which past experience could provide. Originally published in 1966, this study assembled the past experience of foster care in one area, analysed it and presented it in such a way that predictions could be made of the outcome of a potential placement. At the time it offered an important contribution to the task of providing the best possible care for children separated from their own families. Today it can be read in its historical context.
Author : Patricia W. Cautley
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book A Study of Predictors of Success in Foster Care written by Patricia W. Cautley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dante Cicchetti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118120922
Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Developmental Psychopathology, Maladaptation and Psychopathology written by Dante Cicchetti and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference on external contributing factors in psychopathology Developmental Psychopathology is a four-volume compendium of the most complete and current research on every aspect of the field. Volume Three: Risk, Disorder, and Adaptation explores the everyday effects and behaviors of those with behavioral, mental, or neurological disorders, and the disorder's real-world impact on their well-being. Now in its third edition, this comprehensive reference has been fully updated to better reflect the current state of the field, and detail the latest findings in causation, intervention, contextual factors, and the risks associated with atypical development. Contributions from expert researchers and clinicians explore the effects of abuse and traumatic stress, memory development, emotion regulation, impulsivity, and more, with chapters specifically targeted toward autism, schizophrenia, narcissism, antisocial behavior, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder. Advances in developmental psychopathology have burgeoned since the 2006 publication of the second edition, and keeping up on the latest findings in multiple avenues of investigation can be burdensome to the busy professional. This series solves the problem by collecting the information into one place, with a logical organization designed for easy reference. Learn how childhood experiences contribute to psychopathology Explore the relationship between atypical development and substance abuse Consider the impact or absence of other developmental traits Understand the full risk potential of any behavioral or mental disorder The complexity of a field as diverse as developmental psychopathology deepens with each emerging theory, especially with consideration of the multiple external factors that have major effects on a person's mental and emotional development. Developmental Psychopathology Volume Three: Risk, Disorder, and Adaptation compiles the latest information into a cohesive, broad-reaching reference with the most recent findings.
Author : John D. Fluke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190059540
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection written by John D. Fluke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professionals in child welfare and protection are often required to make decisions--fraught with many difficulties and shortcomings--that have crucial implications for children and families. There are many indications that these decisions are frequently unreliable and involve unavoidable errors in judgement due to the uncertainties. Despite the central role of judgements in the field, child welfare and protection training and research programs pay limited attention to leveraging the human factors aspect of practice. Although extensive research exists in relevant areas--such as medicine, psychology, business administration, and economics--little has been done to help develop, transfer, and translate scientific knowledge to the child welfare arena. Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection pulls together the best internationally sourced expertise and makes it accessibly available and applicable to scholars, educators, practitioners, students, and policymakers--the key stakeholders in child protective services and child welfare.
Author : Andrea A. Nesmith
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Predictors of Running Away from Foster Care written by Andrea A. Nesmith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maia Hurley
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Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Predictors of Child Wellbeing written by Maia Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion A. Becker
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Predictors of Parent-child Reunification and Behavioral Health Services Use & Cost for Children in Foster Care written by Marion A. Becker and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mikaela Kathlene Sebree
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Child, Caregiver, and Family Predictors of Rates of Growth in Clinical and Functional Outcomes in Systems of Care written by Mikaela Kathlene Sebree and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last several decades there has been a growing recognition that children with serious emotional disturbances are considerably underserved. The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Family Program is the largest federal grant program to help communities to implement, advance, and evaluate the system of care approach to service delivery. One of the goals of the evaluation has been to determine if children who participate in system of care services demonstrate improved clinical and functional outcomes over time. Prior research has revealed that children do display significant improvements over time. While this research is promising, it is also important to explore the variability in the rates of improvement to determine who benefits the most from system of care services. This dissertation explores the predictive role of a selected group of variables (behavioral and emotional strengths, caregiver strain, and demographic variables) on differential rates of improvements in clinical and functional outcomes over time for children who participate in systems of care. These variables were also examined in relation to differences in levels of clinical and functional impairments at intake into system of care services. The results from the latent variable quadratic growth models indicated that children who are served by systems of care displayed significant improvements in clinical and functional outcomes over time, with the greatest improvement occurring in the first six months. Children's behavioral and emotional strengths, caregiver strain, sex, age, and race significantly predicted differences in instantaneous growth, as well as rates of deceleration, for clinical and functional outcomes. Clinical implications, limitations of the study, and directions for future research are discussed.
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Contextual and Child History Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Foster Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster children experience behavior problems at a much greater rate than their community counterparts. These increased behavior problems lead to undesirable outcomes, such as a greater number of placements, less academic success, and a lower likelihood of reunification with the biological parents. Research on internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in foster children has yet to produce any definitive conclusions on what predicts high levels of child behavior problems. This study aims to contribute to current research on foster children's behavior problems by analyzing a more comprehensive set of predictors comprising child history and contextual variables. Child history predictors include the reason for removal from the child's primary caregivers, the number of prior placements, and the type of prior placements. Contextual predictors include the child's placement in kinship vs. non- kinship care, the number of other children in the home, the length of time in the present placement, the foster parent's stress level, presence of a sibling, and the behavior problems of the other children in the home. The Child Behavior Checklist was used to assess internalizing and externalizing behavior problems using raw scores. A linear hierarchical regression was used to assess each set of predictor's effect on behavior problems as well as each individual predictor's effect. Participants were 354 foster children from San Diego County whose foster or kinship parents are participants in KEEP, a foster parent training intervention. Data were collected at the baseline of the intervention program prior to any intervention services using parent phone interviews. Results indicate that as a set, the contextual variables predicted a significant and unique amount of variability in the child's internalizing and externalizing behavior scores. Specifically, greater externalizing behavior scores were associated with the child's placement in a non-kinship home, a non-ethnically matched child-parent pair, higher parent stress scores, and higher internalizing behavior scores for the child. Greater internalizing behavior scores were associated with higher parent stress scores, higher sibling externalizing behavior scores, and higher externalizing behavior scores for the child. Implications for intervention services are discussed, particularly the importance of assessing the child's foster home environment when addressing the child's behavior problems.
Author : Peter J. Pecora
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195175913
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book What Works in Foster Care? written by Peter J. Pecora and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow up. Key investments in highly trained staff, low caseloads and robust complementary services can dramatically reduce rates of mental disorders and substance abuse. This book offers a model foster care programme.
Author : Thomas Patrick McDonald
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Assessing the Long-term Effects of Foster Care written by Thomas Patrick McDonald and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What lasting impact has foster care had on the adult lives of former foster children? Noting how trends in expectations and outcomes in foster care have changed over the past 30 years, this comprehensive and critical review of the impact foster care has had on children provides a framework for the critical assessment of trends in programs and policies; identifies what is known and not known concerning the impact of foster care; and offers recommendations for future data collection and research, as well as program and policy development. A welcome addition to the literature for program administrators, policymakers, and researchers in the child welfare field.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Meloy
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Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Child Development at the Intersection of Early Care and Education and Child Welfare written by Mary Elizabeth Meloy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical interest in the developmental outcomes of young foster children has surged in recent years, leading to a large knowledge base describing the risks associated with their experiences of trauma and toxic stress, and the potential of foster care experiences to compound or ameliorate those risks. A parallel literature documents the benefits that can accrue to similarly at-risk populations of young children from early care and education (ECE) programs that are explicitly designed to support developmental well-being and growth, as well as the detrimental impacts that can arise from poor quality programs. Despite growing empirical and policy interest surrounding the developmental consequences of both child welfare and ECE for at-risk children, there is a dearth of research at the critical nexus of these systems. This dissertation addresses this gap by utilizing national, state, survey and administrative data to (1) provide descriptions of the ECE arrangements experienced by young children who become involved with the child welfare system, with a focus on those in foster care; (2) identify predictors of ECE experiences including foster parent and child demographics, and child welfare placement type; and (3) explore the relationship of foster placement stability and developmental outcomes to ECE use, type, number of arrangements, and public funding. Foster child age, ethnicity and disability status, as well as foster parent employment, education, and relationship to child (kin vs. non-kin) predicted both the use and type of ECE experienced by children in foster care. Public funding for ECE was associated with more stable foster placements. Children receiving in-home services displayed different patterns of association between developmental outcomes and ECE experiences than children in kinship foster placements. Children in kinship placements demonstrated benefits from Head Start, but other childcare arrangements appeared to be less advantageous. Children living at home benefited only from other childcare. These results have implications for developmental science with regard to the potential role of ECE in mitigating or exacerbating the impacts of toxic stress within this vulnerable population of young children and for policies aimed at promoting developmentally supportive linkages between ECE and child welfare services.
Author : Amy Michele Salazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Investigating the Predictors of Postsecondary Education Success and Post-college Life Circumstances of Foster Care Alumni written by Amy Michele Salazar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a group, youth who have spent time in foster care are far behind the general population in postsecondary educational attainment. Nevertheless, most do hold aspirations for higher education. For those who make it to college, foster care alumni face a variety of obstacles related to successful postsecondary completion. However, it is unclear whether the factors that affect postsecondary success in this population are similar to those identified for other college students or more unique to the distinctive experience of being in foster care. Furthermore, while there is general consensus that higher education is beneficial to foster care alumni in overcoming adversity, no study has examined how foster care alumni who graduate from college actually fare in their adult lives compared with the general population of college graduates, or with those in the general population who did not graduate college. The study aims first to identify the predictors of postsecondary retention and success using survey data from a cross-sectional sample of foster care alumni who received Casey Family Scholarship Program or Orphan Foundation of America Foster Care to Success postsecondary scholarships. Second, the study compares adult outcomes of foster care alumni graduates with general population graduates and general population non-graduates to explore the role higher education plays in these youths' lives. Results are interpreted in relation to Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory, theories of educational persistence and motivation, trauma theory, and theories related to other difficulties of being in foster care. Analyses include bivariate examinations of postsecondary factors and their relation to college disengagement; discrete-time survival analysis of general college retention factors and factors more unique to the foster care population in predicting college graduation; and multivariate comparisons (ANOVA's, ANCOVA's, and chi-squares) of foster youth graduates and non-foster youth graduates and non-graduates in relation to their post-college life circumstances. In bivariate comparisons of general population factors related to retention, five of the nine factors (academic-related skills, institutional commitment, social support, social involvement, and institutional financial support) had at least one indicator with a significant or trend-level relationship with college disengagement. In bivariate comparisons of foster care-specific factors related to retention, four out of the seven factors (maltreatment/ trauma/PTSD, other mental health problems, independent living stability, tangible support) had at least one item with a significant or trend-level relationship with college disengagement. Comparing the two separate factor models, the general population factor group modeled the data slightly better in predicting college graduation than the foster care-specific factor model. No model improvement was found when foster care-specific factors were added into the general population factor model. Both general population and foster care alumni graduates fared more positively than general population non-graduates for three post-college factors: individual income, financial satisfaction, and happiness. Only the general population graduates were found to be faring better than general population non-graduates on a variety of other factors. Foster youth graduates fared less positively than general population graduates on a variety of post-college outcomes. Results have implications for policy and practice regarding the most effective means of supporting postsecondary aspirations of youth with foster care experience.
Author : United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Children's Bureau written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Faust
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197694233
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Applying Decision Research to Improve Clinical Outcomes, Psychological Assessment, and Clinical Prediction written by David Faust and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health professionals often must make judgments or decisions involving vital matters. Is an individual likely to act violently? Has a child been sexually abused? Is a police officer fit to carry a gun? An explosion of research in clinical and cognitive psychology provides practical means for enhancing the accuracy of clinical decision making and prediction and thereby improving outcomes and the quality of care. Unfortunately, this research has not been broadly disseminated in the mental health field. The book is designed to familiarize readers with essential findings from decision science and its practical, immediate applications in the mental health field.
Author : Kristine Frerer
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Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)
Download or read book An Exploration of Foster Youth Academic Performance Trajectories and Predictors of Group Membership written by Kristine Frerer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many maltreated youth between the ages of eight and fourteen, challenges associated with the family environment and entry into foster care placement compromises their ability to function and learn. Though prior research indicates that the educational attainment of foster youth is poor, negative performance is reported as though it is a unitary phenomenon among foster students, overlooking population heterogeneity. While collectively foster youth may have increased risk due to maltreatment and removal from home, correlates including educational risks prior to entry, child welfare case characteristics, and residential and school changes may be associated with differences in foster youth academic performance trajectories. Performance levels on the California Standards Test in English language arts and math are followed longitudinally for four years for first-time entries to foster care from two California counties between school years 2003 and 2006. In addition to an all foster youth sample, foster youth are matched closely to students in the general population by Propensity Score Matching on key educational risks and performance level the year prior to foster care entry. Covariates include achievement gap variables such as ethnicity, disability, and English language learner status in addition to six child welfare case characteristics and five time sensitive residential and school change factors. Group-based analysis and multinomial logistic regression are used to determine the number and type of distinct academic performance trajectories and to examine whether group membership is associated with out of home placement, education risk factors, and child welfare case characteristics. As variance within academic performance is indicated by six distinct English language arts and five math academic performance trajectories, findings support the current research approach to explore heterogeneity with educationally vulnerable populations. Analyses indicate that foster youth and comparison student academic performance trajectories in English and math are similar which suggests that educational vulnerability for foster youth is related to characteristics that exist prior to placement in out of home care. These findings are echoed in the foster youth sample, where pre-placement educational risks are more salient predictors of negative trajectories than experiences associated with foster care placement. For some foster youth, residential and school changes lead to decreased adjustment and academic performance. In particular, poor English academic trajectories are associated with same year normative school transitions and entrance into foster care. Overall, lower performing trajectory groups are defined by an increased number of education risks present at entry and residential and school changes in the first year of placement. Group-based analysis can be an important statistical method for both child welfare and education personnel. Youth entering out of home placement or those identified as at-risk are not homogenous groups. Rather, there are meaningful subgroups within these populations that follow distinctive educational trajectories. By identifying clusters or groups of student trajectories, profiles of characteristics within and among groups can aid in uncovering educational strengths and challenges and lead to policies and practices which support improved academic trajectories for vulnerable youth.
